Boy Names That Start With T
Boys' names beginning with T, ranked by how many babies actually got them — not by editorial preference — plus which ones are climbing and how the letter itself has moved.
- Share of boys, 2025
- 3.8%
- vs 5.3% in 2000
- Names in use
- 627
- 2,759 recorded since 1880
- Letter peaked
- 1967
- at 7.0% of names
- Rank among 26 letters
- #12
- by 2025 share
How T has fared since 1880
Share of all listed U.S. births given a name starting with T, year by year. Plotted as a share rather than a count — raw counts track how many babies were born, so every letter would appear to peak in 1957.
| Save name | Name & meaning | History 1926–2025, yearly counts; individually scaled | Babies 2025 · rank | 5-year rank movement | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6,917#34 | Up 11 rank positions in five years | 1952 | |||
| 1,734#203 | Down 11 rank positions in five years | 1959 | |||
| 1,633#220 | Down 90 rank positions in five years | 1994 | |||
| 192#1,116 | Down 183 rank positions in five years | 1957 | |||
| 13,355#4 | Up 19 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 732#434 | Down 96 rank positions in five years | 1989 | |||
| 325#784 | Down 154 rank positions in five years | 1961 | |||
| 563#533 | Down 118 rank positions in five years | 1970 | |||
| 420#658 | Up 87 rank positions in five years | 1947 | |||
| 400#680 | Down 273 rank positions in five years | 1998 | |||
| 1,103#309 | Down 127 rank positions in five years | 2008 | |||
| 398#685 | Down 92 rank positions in five years | 1992 | |||
| 641#475 | Down 142 rank positions in five years | 1998 | |||
| 132#1,392 | Down 221 rank positions in five years | 1970 | |||
| 213#1,042 | Down 423 rank positions in five years | 2007 | |||
| 2,008#181 | Up 10 rank positions in five years | 2014 | |||
| 142#1,344 | Down 404 rank positions in five years | 2001 | |||
| 565#531 | Down 159 rank positions in five years | 2009 | |||
| 306#813 | Down 161 rank positions in five years | 2005 | |||
| 269#890 | Down 197 rank positions in five years | 1999 | |||
| 3,945#82 | Up 90 rank positions in five years | 2023 | |||
| 5,835#50 | Up 118 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 234#979 | Up 160 rank positions in five years | 1975 | |||
| 301#823 | Up 511 rank positions in five years | 1949 | |||
| 394#691 | Up 17 rank positions in five years | 2003 | |||
| 1,201#283 | Down 20 rank positions in five years | 2016 | |||
| 1,862#194 | Up 159 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 910#358 | Down 18 rank positions in five years | 2015 | |||
| 314#798 | Down 12 rank positions in five years | 2016 | |||
| 116#1,512 | Down 663 rank positions in five years | 1996 | |||
| 340#758 | Up 5 rank positions in five years | 2008 | |||
| 1,736#202 | Up 288 rank positions in five years | 2024 | |||
| 175#1,181 | Down 392 rank positions in five years | 2006 | |||
| 195#1,107 | Down 103 rank positions in five years | 2019 | |||
| 572#522 | Down 37 rank positions in five years | 2022 | |||
| 753#427 | Up 277 rank positions in five years | 2024 | |||
| 151#1,295 | Down 624 rank positions in five years | 2017 | |||
| 140#1,350 | Down 325 rank positions in five years | 2018 | |||
| 194#1,111 | Down 266 rank positions in five years | 2021 | |||
| 578#521 | Up 437 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 200#1,079 | Up 38 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 187#1,137 | Up 223 rank positions in five years | 2024 | |||
| 496#591 | Up 223 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 192#1,117 | Up 224 rank positions in five years | 2022 | |||
| 318#794 | Up 577 rank positions in five years | 2024 | |||
| 211#1,050 | Up 120 rank positions in five years | 2024 | |||
| 134#1,379 | Down 39 rank positions in five years | 2023 | |||
| 138#1,361 | Up 156 rank positions in five years | 2021 | |||
| 147#1,321 | Up 507 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 331#774 | Up 13,108 rank positions in five years | 2025 |
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T names climbing fastest
Biggest T names of all time
By total applications since 1880 — a different list from the one above, because it counts every generation, not just this one.
Every other letter
Sources & methodology
Rankings and counts come from official birth card-application data, 1880–2025. Counts are card applications rather than births, and any name given to fewer than 5 babies of one sex in a year is not published — so “—” means genuinely uncommon, never invalid. The “climbing fastest” row ranks by five-year rank movement as a ratio, and a name must be inside the top 1,000 with at least 200 applications in 2025 to qualify — a looser gate than the site-wide trending list uses, because inside a single letter the stricter one leaves some letters empty. Letter shares are measured over listed names only, and the 25-year comparison is a generation rather than five years because letter fashion moves far more slowly than any one name.